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Southampton’s hair-raiser trio Mystic Peach have today shared their genre-thwarting single ‘It’s Not Their Future’, as well as their highly anticipated debut EP ‘M?’, via on-the-pulse South Coast label and promoters Honeymooner. In addition to the EP comes the band’s debut UK headline tour.
“Taut, intense songwriting with a rock crunch” – Clash Magazine
“No-one has managed to capture pre-lockdown loneliness in a three-minute isolated snapshot as prevailingly as Mystic Peach” – So Young Magazine
“Mystic Peach’s vocalist and guitarist Curtis Gale’s vocals are gale-force winds of their own, smashing through waves of sound with an accelerating menace while the grungy riff antes up worryingly like the most earnest of poker bluffs, daring you to call it out” – The Line of Best Fit
“There will be times in the future where Mystic Peach will be able to purr their way through people’s ears, right now it’s all about the chaos. Please don’t stop!” – Jack Saunders
“They’re really, really good, really intense and every song comes straight from the heart.” – Huw Stephens
Watch ‘It’s Not Their Future’ video here / Listen to ‘M?’ EP here
Having previously been selected as Jack Saunders’ Next Wave on BBC Radio 1, a track remixed by New York’s A Place To Bury Strangers and recently signed to Marshall Amplifcation’s Live Agency, 2021, despite it’s grievances, was a force which encouraged Mystic Peach to indulge in a total rebrand- a change in artistic direction which enabled the group to embrace their vulnerabilities, as they gear up to unveil their biggest work yet; a labour of love and a concoction of emotions created in pockets of isolation, that’s itching to be unleashed into a freer, more creatively lucid state of existence.
Of the EP, vocalist / guitarist Curtis Gale notes: “We’re excited to finally release our first major piece of “art”; an EP that seemed to flawlessly meet the narrative of our intentions of being open on mental health, with personal experiences turned into a short story and the regression of the protagonist’s sanity.
Though that may appear negative for us, it’s an insight of our difficulties and sharing them through our music in the hope that it helps someone out there and we can celebrate our weirdness together.”
Recorded in lockdown by George Murphy at West London’s Eastcote Studios, ‘M?’, and subsequently ‘She’s So Neat’, are two captivating examples of how banded self-progression can result in long term fluidity, and confrontationally companionate euphoria. Neither a “real” name nor a symbol of mystique but rather a self-adaptive emblem of headspaces trapped in time, and set-free in guitar based anarchy, ‘M?’ is a raucous tale of subconscious intuition that combines influences of 60’s garage and Motown/Northern Soul, with a psychological plethora of Psych-Punk precision.
Categorised manically into four key stages: ‘She So Neat’: Obsession, ‘Demon Sway’: Delusion, ‘It’s Not Their Future’: Denial and ‘Float’: Suicidal tendencies, ‘M?’ is without a shadow of a doubt a four-way trip to god knows where, and just about every corner of the mind; exemplifying Mystic Peach’ innate ability of documenting the “ordinary”, during exceptionally extraordinary circumstances.
Curtis Gale continues:
“It’s Not Their Future is denial. It’s obsession. The thought of looking at yourself in the mirror and discovering flaws. Going to the dark side of your mind to discover why you feel the way you do is sometimes too much for one human to take. So what now? Blame someone/thing to make out that you’re not the problem… that turns into obsession, unfortunately. To speak for others because you feel depressed too doesn’t mean you should. Just because an antidepressant didn’t work for one person – it doesn’t mean it won’t for others. Just because your views do not match theirs – it doesn’t mean they are wrong. It’s unhealthy for the mind to obsess, and the majority of people are obsessed. We are all unhealthy.”
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Mystic Peach are:
Curtis Gale – Vocals guitar
Joe Ingram – Bass
Jimi Allen – Drums
UK Tour Dates:
17th December, Heartbreakers, Southampton
25th February – The Garage (Attic Bar), Glasgow
26th February – Yes! Basement, Manchester
27th Feb The Dark Horse, Birmingham
2nd March – The Exchange, Bristol
3rd March – The Loft, Portsmouth
4th March – The George Tavern, London
All on sale: musicglue.com/mysticpeachh
